The covenant between Jews and God was conditional on their respect for human rights. The reason they were expelled from the land… — Stephen Sizer Copy Share Image
Why do you hunger for length of days? The point of life is to follow reason and the divine spirit and to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
It would not be more unreasonable to transplant a favorite flower out of black earth into gold dust than it is for… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
I am a personal optimist but a skeptic about all else. What may sound to some like anger is really nothing more… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
We cannot and we will not negotiate with terrorists. We have nothing but contempt for them. To conciliate differences with these people… — Ferdinand Marcos Copy Share Image
“I heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
She'd always had such contempt for mundanes, the way all Shadowhunters did--she'd believed that they were soft, stupid, sheeplike in their complacency.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The threat of China is not military. The threat of China is they can't be intimidated. Europe you can intimidate. When the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I grew up with such mixed feelings about LA, but I do love it. I grew up lectured by Woody Allen, for… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
“But Joringel had no chance to answer. For Jorinda ran at her brother and threw her arms around him and held him… — Adam Gidwitz Copy Share Image
“Between Countess Nordston and Levin there had been established those relations, not infrequent in society, in which two persons, while ostensibly remaining… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Poor Englishwomen! When it comes to their clothes- well, the French reaction is a shrug, the Italian reaction a spreading of the… — James Laver Copy Share Image
We often see malefactors, when they are led to execution, put on resolution and a contempt of death which, in truth, is… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
The great object was to get rid of Christianity, and to convert our churches into halls of science. The plan was not… — Orestes Brownson Copy Share Image
Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Imagine a life spent having to overcome an endless line of people like St. Vincent and Nelson. I am right—demonstrably right—repeatedly; yet,… — Tom Grundner Copy Share Image
It is not the repeated mistakes, the long succession of petty betrayals--though, God knows, they would give cause enough for anxiety and… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
For 200 years, the dominant powers have also been the colonial powers: the European countries, the U.S. and Japan. They have never… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
“The infidelity of the Gentile world, and that more especially of men of rank and learning in it, is resolved into a… — William Paley Copy Share Image
In handling men, there are three feelings that a man must not possess-fear, dislike and contempt. If he is afraid of men… — Herbert Newton Casson Copy Share Image
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In the first manifesto that we launched on the 8th of March, 1910, from the stage of the Chiarella Theater in Turin,1… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
Every argument that Margaret Thatcher ever made internationally didn't have a great deal to do with her contempt for Communism - she… — Brian Mulroney Copy Share Image
Rights don't come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper,… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
You will smile here at the consistency of those democratists who, when they are not on their guard, treat the humbler part… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I suppose that one of the reasons I wrote "In Contempt" was because of the money. After the trial I came to… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
F@*# self-doubt. I despise it. I hold it in contempt, along with the hell-spawned ooze-pit of Resistance from which it crawled. I… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I can by no means approve the scurrility and contempt with which the Romanists have often been treated. I dare not rail… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“If a king should fall under such contempt or envy that he could not keep his subjects in their duty but by… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
“What’s up with you and that new guy anyway?” Simon watched David leaving the room with contempt on his face. “Nothing.” “Nothing… — Nely Cab Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; bears, indeed, about the same relation to it that a monkey bears to a man;… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
